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• I.I.I. Urges Congress: Don't Tax Insurers In Financial Reform Bill

  By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  April 21, 2010

  The Insurance Information Institute is warning that levying a federal tax on property and casualty insurers to pay for the bailout of failed financial institutions would "constitute a significant policy error."

• Keep P&C Sector From Finance Reform Bill, Coalition Says

  By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  March 3, 2010

  A new insurers' coalition has written the Senate Banking Committee asking that property and casualty carriers not be included in a measure regulating systemic risk in the financial services sector.

• Bipartisan Reform Talks At Impasse; Dodd Pledges Bill

  By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  February 5, 2010

  Negotiations have broken down over a bipartisan financial services reform package in the Senate, leaving Democrats to unveil their own proposal by the end of the month, Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., said today.

• Insurance Industry Losing Two Senate Allies

  By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  January 11, 2010

  Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., and Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., both key allies of the insurance industry in Congress, announced they will leave the Senate at the end of their terms.

• Sen. Dodd, Sen. Dorgan Plan To Retire

  By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  January 6, 2010

  Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., and Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., both key allies of the insurance industry in Congress, have announced their retirement.

• Progress Reported On Fin'l Services Reform

  By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  January 4, 2010

  While battles over health care reform got most of the headlines here this month, Congress tackled a host of other issues of keen interest to property and casualty insurers and producers.